Leon-Sarmiento Fidias E, Bayona-Prieto Jaime, Leon Martha E
Grupo Mediciencia, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.
Rev Esp Salud Publica. 2007 Mar-Apr;81(2):147-54. doi: 10.1590/s1135-57272007000200005.
Latin American scientists are making tremendous efforts to conduct good-quality research worthy of being published internationally. However, Colciencias, an entity created to support this research in Colombia, introduced scienciometric evaluations which had been re-evaluated elsewhere some time ago, based on measurements of aspects such as the ill-termed "impact factor". Even more serious is that the aforementioned government office is unaware that measures are based on debated mathematical principles, placing Colombian science at imminent risk of suffering from an academic yatrogeny of irreparable consequences. Therefore, an urgent restructuring of the way in which Colombia's scientific production is to be evaluated is thus mandatory before these measures have a negative impact thereon.
拉丁美洲的科学家们正在付出巨大努力开展高质量研究，这些研究值得在国际上发表。然而，为支持哥伦比亚的这项研究而设立的实体机构科尔西encias引入了科学计量评估，而这些评估是基于诸如有不当称谓的“影响因子”等方面的测量，而这些测量在其他地方早已被重新评估过。更严重的是，上述政府部门并未意识到这些测量是基于存在争议的数学原理，这使得哥伦比亚科学面临遭受具有不可挽回后果的学术医源性问题的紧迫风险。因此，在这些措施对哥伦比亚的科研产出产生负面影响之前，必须对其科学产出的评估方式进行紧急重组。
